Amazon.com, with one Jacksonville fulfillment center under development and a second anticipated, also will open a smaller delivery station.
The company intends to operate the 63,000-square-foot station in a North Jacksonville industrial park 9 miles east of the center under development at 12900 Pecan Park Road.
The Seattle-based internet retailer filed a permit application to build-out space in the Alta Lakes Commerce Center at 11084 Cabot Commerce Circle.
Both locations are north along Interstate 295.
No contractor is listed on the application for the $1.5 million project, which would renovate vacant industrial space for the station, including office space. That space includes a training room, break room and a new mother’s room.
Packages will be sorted generally between midnight and 6 a.m. Drivers may load 10-22 vans about 6 a.m. and the process should be completed by 10 a.m.
The plans show CESO Inc. of Akron, Ohio, is the architect; DDC LLC of Longwood is the design/build construction manager; Ohlin & Reed Consulting Engineers Inc. of Akron is the consulting engineer; and Dialectic Engineering of Kansas City, Mo., is the mechanical, plumbing and electrical engineer.
According to mwpvl.com, Amazon launched the delivery station distribution network in late 2013. It consists of smaller facilities in the 60,000- to 100,000-square-foot range.
MWPVL International is a Montreal-based supply chain, logistics and distribution consulting company.
The site says Amazon delivery stations are positioned near large metropolitan cities and often near airports. The Alta Lakes site is about 10 miles from Jacksonville International Airport.
The primary role of delivery stations is to sort packages for last-mile delivery to customers in a tightly defined area, the site says. Often deliveries are performed by multiple local courier companies contracted by Amazon.com.
The Pecan Park Road fulfillment center for small packages should open in time for the 2017 holiday season. Its footprint is 855,000 square feet and, at multiple levels, its total size is about 2.4 million square feet.
A second center, for large packages, is anticipated within AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center in West Jacksonville. Called Project Velo, that center’s identity should be confirmed by year-end. Its footprint is 1 million square feet but also will be multilevel.
Jacksonville also could be home to a sortation center because Amazon.com often opens multiple facilities in geographic areas.
A sortation center, which averages about 200,000 square feet, steers packages for delivery to the U.S. Postal Service and contracted couriers. They also send packages to delivery stations.
Alta Lakes Commerce Center is owned by Boston-based Cabot Properties Inc. The 115,000-square-foot building that will lease to Amazon.com was built in 2008.
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